Virtual RELab Visit
Welcome to this virtual visit of the Rehabilitation Engineering Lab at ETH Zurich!
Our lab uses robotics, wearable sensor technologies and non-invasive neuroimaging to explore, assess and restore sensorimotor function in persons with neurological injury, with the goal of promoting indepence. We closely collaborate with neurorehabilitation clinics and clinical scientists to develop and clinically evaluate our technologies.
We are located at Balgrist Campus, a research campus next to the Balgrist University Hospital and its Spinal Cord Injury Center, which brings together researchers from Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Children's Hospital Zurich and ETH Zurich.
Neurorehabilitation engineering and science has a long history in Zurich, with a tradition of close collaboration between clinicians, scientists and engineers. Among others, this collaboration resulted in the development of the first Lokomat at the Balgrist University Hospital in the 1990s, which resulted in the founding of Hocoma AG and the creation of several professorships in the areas of (neuro)rehabilitation engineering, clinical neurorehabilitation and experimental neurorehabilitation.
In the following you will find videos presenting several of our ongoing research projects. For further information on each project, follow the link below the video.
We hope you enjoy the virtual visit of our lab!
The RELab Team
EXPLORE: An Exoskeleton for Perturbing the Knee to Assess Stiffness Modulation During Gait
ASSESS: Assessment of Upper Limb Sensorimotor Function with the Virtual Peg Insertion Test
RESTORE: Neurocognitive Robot-Assisted Therapy of Hand Function with the ReHapticKnob
RESTORE: Providing Grasping Assistance in Everyday Activities with a Fully Wearable Soft Hand Exoskeleton
RESTORE: Improving Stability and Gait Velocity with a Lower Limb Exoskeleton on Uneven Ground
This video was recorded in our HomeLab, a lab that allows us to test our technologies in a controlled lab environment that offers challenging environments that are typically present outside of lab environments (uneven ground, ramps and stairs and objects commonly used in daily living). Read more about the VariLeg project.
For an overview of all our ongoing research projects, visit our research page.